Tried script with C8 and failed under virtualbox

[flare04]

I just wanted to customize a C8 image with a few of our packages, but alas using this technique I can only produce an image that fails to install.

To create the image I patched the createiso.sh, see attached. All goes well until I try to use the iso to install undervirtualbox. It seems to work under libvirt.

I hope it's helpful.

c8.patch.zip

[flare04]

I spoke to early it worked once under qemu after that I've not got the installer to boot

[fcaviggia]

I haven't had time to work on CentOS 8 - the major reason is the Dual Layer DVD and python3 requirements (that's a lot of code re-write for the python). Red Hat installs are getting really bloated in their requirements. I've been a bit busy with life (married, kid) and other work (standards development, cross domain, etc.) I haven't had time to maintain these scripts.

[flare04]

That's OK. I got it working - my issue was the LABEL, when I got that consistent it all worked fine
It is getting bloated I think I'd change the script to remove a whole load of packages, recreate the repo and then recreate the DVD, as I don't need libreoffice, etc..
Good luck with life!

[openface]

@flare04 curious if you booted in UEFI boot mode?

[flare04]

The image I created works in both modes without issue, apart from on one system that had large disks and the bios was in legacy mode, changing that to UEFi ensured it worked

[fcaviggia]

It's worked on a number of UEFI systems - I had a few that had to have some adjustments to get things working correctly.